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During Linux installation, you need to two

configure a minimum of how many user
accounts?

Filesystem that performs journaling ext3

Shares password databases among Linux Network Information Service (NIS)

systems

Program started by the BIOS that loads the boot loader

Linux kernel into memory from a hard disk
partition inside the computer

command that halts the system immediately poweroff

and powers down the computer

Allows you to choose the operating system dual booting

upon system startup

Specify a commands' working parameters arguments

Channel that allows a user to log in terminal

Alter the way a command works options

Traditional filesystem still used on most Linux ext2

computers

In Linux, what is used to accept input from the Shell

user and pass input to the kernel for
processing?

To find all of the commands that have the word man -k list
list in their name or description, you would
type what?

What metacharacterindicates background &

command execution?

What is the shell that is used by default in BASH

Linux?

Which Linux Command displays your login whoami

name?

What is the most common method of installing DVD installation

Linux?

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Because you need to document so many pieces Preinstallation checklist

of hardware and software information, you
should create a ______ that contains all
important installation information as well as
hardware information.

What are specific letters that start with a dash Options

(-)?

What directory contains system commands and /usr

utilities?

What filesystem is compatible with the VFAT

Windows FAT filesystem?

Hard disks can contain how many major 4

partitions?

The command that displays the calendar for the cal

current month is what?

what is the metacharacter for command ;

termination?

Which Linux command gets you out of your exit

current shell?

The recommended size for the /home directory 200 MB

is _____ per user.

What command will confirm the system pwd

directory that you are currently in?

What metacharacter can also be used to refer to ~

the current user's home directory?

To move from the /home/joe/test/data to the cd../..

home/joe directory, what command would you
use?

If you type enough unique letters of a directory Tab

and press the _____ key, the BASH shell will
find the intended file or directory being
specified and fill in the appropriate
information.

Most files on a Linux system that contain text files

configuration information are what kind of
files?

To view a list of files and their type, use the -F

____ switch to the ls command.

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The ____ symbol indicates a linked file. @

The ____ command can be used to provide a ls -l

long listing for each file in a certain directory.

Using wildcard metacharacters, how can one [1-4]

indicate a number is either 1, 2, 3, or 4?

The ____ command displays the last five lines tail -5

of a text file

Extended regular expression metacharacters ?, +, {}, |

The ____ regular expression metacharacter *

matches 0 or more occurrences of the previous
character.

What key combination, commonly used in the ctrl + g

vi editor command mode, displays current line
statistics?

The ____ can be used with LISP artificial Emacs editor

intelligence programming language and
supports hundreds of keyboard functions like
the vi editor.

The ____ editor is functionally analogous to the gedit

Windows Wordpad and Notepad editors.

Displays files in reverse order tac command

Displays lines of test that match extended egrep comand

regular expressions

Identifies a channel that passes information named pipe

from one process in memory to another, and in
some cases can be mediated by fiels on the hard
drive

Special file that serves as placeholders to directory

organize other files

Displays the first ten lines of a text file head command

A file that represents a device on the system, Special device file

such as a hard disk or serial port

Files that have an association with one another Linked files

A file that contains the most recent entries at log file

the bottom of the file

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A file that allows a process on another socket file

computer to write to a file on the local
computer while another process reads from that
file

In the FHS, the ____ directory contains the /boot

Linux kernel and files used by the boot loader

In FHS, the ____ directory is the root user's /root

home directory

In the FHS, the ____ directory contains most /usr

system commands and utilities

Copying a file can be accomplished using what cp

command?

What command takes a list of arguments rm

specifying the absolute or relative pathnames of
files to remove?

The fastest method to search for files in the locate command

Linux Directory tree is to use what command?

You can see the contents of a certain variable in $

memory by using the ____ metacharacter with
the echo command

The ____ section of a filesystem is the section superblock

that contains information about the filesystem
in general.

To create a hard link, you must use the ____ ln

command

The section of an inode that stores permissions mode

is called the _____ of a file.

In a file's mode, if a permission is unavailable, -

a ____ character replaces its position in the
mode

If a user has _____ permission for a file, they write

can open. read, and edit the contents of a file

When using the chmod command for a specific g+r-w

file, the ______ argument would add read
permissin and remove write permission for the
group persmission

When using the chmod command, the mode 7

rwx can be replaced by the number____.

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To set all of the special permission on a certain chmod 7777 name

file or directory, you can use the command
_____, where name is the name of the file or
directory.

Command used to change the permissions for a chmod

certain file or directory

Command used to view you current user name whoami

Command used to view your group groups

memberships and primary group

Command used to change the group owner of a chgrp

file or directory

Command used to test network connectivity ping

Command used to change the ownership of a chown

file or directory

Command used to display BASH shell aliases alias

Special variable on the system used to take umask

away permissions on new files and directories
immediately after they are created.

Command used to quickly create an empty file. touch

Devices that transfer data in a character- character

by-character fashion are referred to
as______devices.

The ____ device file represents the first /dev/hdb1

primary partition on the second IDE hard disk
drive (primary slave).

The ____ device file represents the second /dev/ttyS1

serial port on the system (COM2).

The ____ filesystem is used by software udf

programs that write to a CD-RW or DVD-RW
drive.

The _____ filesystem contains most of the root

operating system files.

To format a filesystem with a specified -t

filesystem type, you can use the ____ option
with the mkfs command.

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To mount all filesystems in the /etc/fstab file mount -a

that are intended to mount at boot time, you can
simply type the ____ command.

CD-ROMs typically use the _____ filesystem iso9660

Linux requires how many partitions at two

minimum?

Data is read off of hard disks in concentric tracks

circles called what?

To create partitions after installation, you can fdisk

use the _____ command

The easiest method for monitoring free space df

by mounted filesystems is to use the _____
command

Errors on a filesystem are often referred to as corruption

filesytem ____ and are common on most
filesystems.

To check a filesystem for errors, you can use fsck

the _____ command, which can check
filesystems of many different types.

You can edit the quotas for certain users by edquota

using the _____ command

Directory that stores devices files /dev

Indicates a particular device minor number

File on the hard disk representing a device on a device file

Linux system

Command used to create modify system tune2fs

parameters

The first readable sector of a hard disk, where MBR

partition definitions are stored

File that contains a list of devices that are /proc/devices

currently used on the filesystem and their major
numbers

Rigid quota limits that the user cannot exceed hard limits

Points to the device driver for a device in the major number

Linux kernel

Hard disk quotas that the user can exceed for a Soft limits
certain period of time.

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Each SCSI device is assigned a unique ID target id

number known as a _____.

Most Parallel SCSI controllers support up to 15

____ devices.

The highest priority SCSI device is given a 7

SCSI ID of______.

The _____ standard supports speeds of up to 80 SCSI-3 Ultra2 Wide

MB/s.

Raid level _____ is often referred to as disk 1

mirroring.

Raid level ____ is commonly referred to as disk 5

striping with parity

A Fedora 13 CD installation requires ___ CDs. six

In Fedora Linux, a ____ file is a script file that kickstart

speifies the choices that you would normally
choose when you install the operating system

If a Linux installaion ends abnormally and the 11

screen displays a "fatal signal _____" error
message, it indicates an error known as a
segmentation fault.

Some installation fail to place a boot loader on 1024

the hard disk properly; this is often the case
with large hard disk drives that have over ____
cylinders.

_____ installation log files are create by the two

Fedora installation program.

to verify hardware settings, you can examine /proc

the contents of the _____ directory.

The ____ file in the /proc directory contains a ioports

list of memory address ranges reserved for
device use.

The ____ in the /proc directory contains loadavg

statistics on the performance of the processor.

A remote disk to which a computer connects iSCSI target

using iSCSI

File that contains a lists of packages that were /root/install.log

installed as well as a list of those that were not
installed

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A type of RAID level 0 that consists of two spanning

hard disks that are seen as one large volume.

A unique identifier for each devie attached to Logical Unit Number (LUN)
any given node in a SCSI chain

File that lists all of the system events that /root/install.log.syslog

occurred during the installation, such as the
creation of user and group accounts

A version of RAID controlled by the system firmware RAID

BIOS

A protocol that may be used to install Fedora Network File System (NFS)
via the network.

A type of RAID level 0 in which an individual disk striping

file is divided into sections and saved
concurrently on multiple disks.

The situation in which a program has accessed segmentation fault

an area of RAM that was not assigned

The file descriptor stdin is represented by the 0

number____.

The file descriptor stderr is represented by the 2

number___.

You can ue the BASH shell to redirect standard >

output and standard error from the terminal
screen to a file on the filesystem using the ___
shell metacharacter followed by the absolute or
relative pathname of the file

You can redirect a file to the standard input of a <

command using the ____ character.

The ____ command can be used to replace tr

characters in a file sent via Standard Input

You can send the standard output of one |

command to another command as standard
input using the ____ shell metacharacter.

The ____ command count the number of lines, wc

words, and characters in a file

The ____ command can be used to extract, awk

manipulate, and format text using pattern-
action statements

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Most configuration files on Linux systems are colon

delimited using ____ characters

To see a list of the environmental variables and set

their current values on a system, you can use
the ____ command

The _____ command could be used to view the echo $PS1

contents of the environment variable that
represents the BASH shell prompt.

To see a list of all exported environment and env

user-defined variables in the shell, you can use
the ____ command

The _____ environment fiel is always executed /etc/profile

immediately after login for all users on the
system, and sets most environment variables,
such as HOME and PATH.

If you have _____ permission to a shell script, read and execute

you cn execute the shell script like any other
executable program on the system.

The test statement ____ would be used to [ A -gt B ]

determine if A is numerically greater than B

Labels representing command input and output file descriptors

Any error messages generated by a command stderr

Shell variables that are typically set by the environment variables

system and contain information that the system
and programs access regularly

Files that are typically used to create custom shell scrpits

programs that perform administrative tasks on
Linux systems.

The first line in a shell script, which specifies hashpling

the pathname to the shell that interprets the
contents of the shell script

The information that is processed by the stdin

command during execution

Constructs that alter the flow of a program a decision construct

based on whether a command in the program
completed successfully or based on a decision
that the uer makes given a question posed by
the program

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The normal output of a command stdout

A filter command that takes information from tee

standard input and sends that information to a
file, as well as to standard output.

The Linux kernel is stored in the _____ /boot

directory.

_____ of the GRUB boot loader typically Stage 1

resided on the Master boot record

To create an encrypted password for use in the grub-md5-crypt

/boot/grub/grub.conf, you can use the ____
command

In the /etc/lilo.conf file, the ____ keyword image=

specifies the absolute pathname to the Linux
kernel.

In the /etc/lilo.conf file, the ____ keyword install=

specifies the file that contains the physical
layout of the disk drive.
A Linux system in runlevel ___ is a system that 0
has no daemons active in memory and is ready
to be powered off

After the entries in /etc/inittab have been /etc/rc.d/rc.local

executed, the ____ file is executed to perform
tasks that must occur after system startup.

You can use the ____ command to start, stop, service

or restart any daemons listed within the
/etc/rc.d/init.d directory.

Which utility can be used to modify runtime ntsysv

configuration files so that they start and stop
daemons when entering a particular runlevel?

___ is a freely available version of X Windows XFree86

used in many Linux Distributions.

The two most common dsktop environments kde and gnome

that are used on Linux are ____and____.

The ______ window manager is used for the metacity

GNOME desktop in Red Hat Fedora Core 2

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If your system uses the X.org implementation /etc/x11/xorg.conf

of X Windows, the mouse, keyboard, monitor,
and video adapter card information is stored in
the ____ file in text format

To configure your keyboard, you can use the system-config-keyboard

_____ command from either a GUI or terminal
environment and restart X Windows

After configuring X Windows, you can xvidtune

fine-tune the vsync and hsync of the video card
using the ____ utility withing the desktop
environment.

Programs that tell X Windows how to draw teh X Client

graphics and display the reult

A LILO version available for Intel Pentium and ELILO

Itanium computers that use Extensible
Firmware Interface (EFI).

Utility used to configure video card and Display settings

monitor

Modifies the look and feel of X Windows Window manager

A system process tha performs useful tasks, daemon

such as printing, scheduling, and operating
system maintenance

Another name for runlevels initstates

Partition to which the MBR points active partition

Most common boot loader on modern Linux Grand unified bootloader

systems.

Used to run multiple OSs at the same time virtualization software

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